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Hey guys.

I downloaded the old Street Rod 2 game (DOS) and it displays the intro screen fine until you get into the actual game.

I can't show you what it looks like because when I hit 'print screen' and paste the screenshot into paint, it displays correctly :confused:

The game seems to be displaying a vertical column of graphics twice. So u get a column (a character wide), and then to the right of it the same exact column again (only darker) and then it displays the second column to the right of that, and then column 2 again.

So instead of seeing for example <+_+>..

you will see <<++__++>>

I guess the best way I can describe it is that it's kinda like double vision.

Can anyone help?

Thanks.

EDIT: It works fine if I run the game in 4 colour mode, but not 16 colours :chairshot

damn ill have to try it with dosbox. do u get normal sound with it as well

or its video and environment emulation only? i tried long time ago with vdms and found it to never work. i found stacks of games never to work with vdms. ill have a crack with dosbox

thanks for letting us know it works

oh btw whats the furthest youve got into this game? the cloest ive come to clocking it racing the king in mullholland and he has ford shelby gt500 with the supercharger and u cant actually but that part for the ford. anyway its like impossible to beat him at mullholland

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yeah...

i remember playing street rod one at my grandparents place

on their 286 fully sic fuily fast top of the range computer

with 500mb hard drive and 2mb video card 100mhz processor

(or somting like that anyway)

Edited by usherly
Your video card is not crap enough

Put in an old ati rage and it will fly :lol:

*trys to remember the cheat to get 20000*

in SR1 from memory, you buy a car and make note of how much you bought it for.

Then sell it straight away, putting the original price as a selling price.

When they offer an amount, say no. Sell it for the same again and say no when they offer.

Then sell it for 22111 and they'll take it.

something like that.....

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